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by waltbosz 3y ago
Ha, good one. I never was a great speller. In fact in 6th grade, I wrote a program to do my "write your spelling words 5 times" homework for me. The teachers would let us type it on a computer, and this was in the days before copy
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by waltbosz 3y ago
Tangential, but I have a similar sardonic rant about some occurrences in Rouge One. 1. Their data storage system where hard drives are retrieved by a manually operated claw machine game. 2. Their data transmission system that requires one t
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by waltbosz 3y ago
I had this idea to create some sort of gamified RPG battle log format for government procedure. Members of government would be characters in the battle, actions like amendments/comments/votes would be attacks/spells/defe
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by waltbosz 3y ago
I group up in an area where all the houses were built in the 1930s. All old growth lumber. At one point, the University of Delaware was buying up houses on my street, including one directly across the street from mine. A crew came along an
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by waltbosz 3y ago
I've spend some time imaging about the day when general purpose cooking robots are inexpensive enough to be as ubiquitous as indoor plumbing. How would it affect peoples' diets? Would we eat more healthily because our robot can ea
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by waltbosz 3y ago
Interesting, I too heard of mouth pipetting via an antidote about a modern day bovine sperm collection facility. I was surprised that anyone still did it given the availability of the micropipett. Also, I wonder why the scientists of the pa
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by waltbosz 3y ago
I too miss having friends to nerd out with.
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by waltbosz 3y ago
I love mechanical pinball machines. My cousin used to restore them. I remember visiting him and he'd have them all over his house. They're so noisy. I can't imagine the sound of a pinball arcade back in the day when they were
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by waltbosz 3y ago
My favorite uncompressed file size surprise comes from the world of Dreamcast game piracy. Pirates would publish game disc images in a ZIP file that was say 100mb. When uncompressed the iso file would be 750mb. The reason for the huge compr
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by waltbosz 3y ago
I'm interested to see a $/H breakdown of the cost of (self hosted htpc) piracy. You gotta buy hard drives and a media player, and spend time with set up and maintaince. You own time would be highly variable in cost. A parent of 4
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by waltbosz 3y ago
I once worked on a project for a company that made food flavoring products. I helped build their digital cookbook. They had different recipes for the same flavor depending on the usage. For example, ranch chip powder and ranch dip would hav
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by waltbosz 3y ago
Neat. I once wrote a Salesforce to Oracle sync app. I think the goal was to bulk pull data out of Salesforce for processing in Oracle to avoid Salesforce API costs. This was years ago. It was a fun and aggravating project.
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by waltbosz 3y ago
> Or one could just uninstall Facebook, delete one's account, and walk away from the whole mess. I like this idea.
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by waltbosz 3y ago
I loved this game as a kid. I managed to play the networked 2 player version once ... I think it was over a parallel port connected between two PCs, but it was terribly laggy. I once wrote a sprite editor for Sopwith. The sprites are encode
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by waltbosz 3y ago
Question about Fairhope: I spend a lot of time in Arden, Delaware which is also a single tax community. Many of the people of Arden love the town and Georgism. So much so that there seems to be several people from Arden that were named eith
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by waltbosz 3y ago
I remember trying to play AITD on a 386. It was unplayable, super slow framerate and unresponsive controls. My friend had a 486 and it played so smoothly in comparison. Also, sad personal story about the Play Date. For a 40th birthday prese
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by waltbosz 3y ago
1 Is there a fine levied against the robotaxi operator when one of their cars interfere with an emergency vehicle? 2 Would it be feasible to put an emergency button in the back seat for the passenger (assuming car is not empty) to use in th
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by waltbosz 3y ago
Ant related anecdote (dare I say ant-cdote): The other day I was reading in my courtyard and kept seeing ants walking back and forth carrying these huge black balls which turned out to be other live ants. I followed an empty handed ant for
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by waltbosz 3y ago
Did the title of this post instantly make you think of that line from the movie? It did for me. Spaceballs was one of the movies that I watched over and over as a kid.
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by waltbosz 3y ago
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by waltbosz 3y ago
Oh man, patorjk.com has been around forever. He once published some code that I submitted. He actually lived in the same town in Maryland as my brother. I still use his ASCII art text generator tool on occasion.
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by waltbosz 3y ago
About 20 years ago, I had a similar idea for a Game Boy camera webcam, but I never finished it. My plan was to put my Game Boy camera into my Super Game Boy, and then hook my SNES to my PC's video capture card. Nice to see someone actu
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by waltbosz 3y ago
Any other fans of the Byrne film "True Stories"?
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by waltbosz 3y ago
Tangential: I went through a McDonald's drive thru yesterday and there was a robotic machine filling up our drink orders. I'm not sure how much human intervention it required. A human had to place the lids on the filled cups. I di
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by waltbosz 3y ago
> it would kill 116,000 people in the United States (the equivalent of about 232,000 today) How is that measured? By population size?
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by waltbosz 3y ago
I tried to read it. I don't think I got past chapter 1. Here is a free audio book of Moby Dick. https://librivox.org/moby-dick-by-herman-melville Maybe I'll try to listen to it some day.
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by waltbosz 3y ago
Me too. I think I paid $5 for the honor and a poster. I think I received a student discount.
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by waltbosz 3y ago
As a JS dev currently looking for a job, can you elaborate on this comment?
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by waltbosz 3y ago
That's what I was thinking. The satellite photos are detailed enough to see lane lines, and combine that with the street level photos will get you the road configuration. But I think whatever data GPS software uses is already detailed
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by waltbosz 3y ago
For years I've been dreaming of a driving/pedestrian sandbox game that used Google Maps data to let me drive recklessly around my home town with accurate models of the buildings and roads. This demo reminds me of that dream.

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